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now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the emmys. kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived in indonesia as a child, studied at a muslim seminary and occasionally ate dog. from the beginning, a kid who had his eyes set on the u.s. presidency. [laughter] check, check, and check. here i come. i know the relationship between the president and the press can seem a bit strained at times. some in this room have accused him of being distant and aloof. when i asked the president about it earlier, he said, oh, and then walked away. [laughter] it is only natural, but mr. president election was less exciting than the first time around in 2008. an election night, you celebrated with hundreds of
now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the emmys. kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived in...
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scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything they're talking about today like . at change cpi it is 2% of the real problem. they will have no ability to form a political consensus, i don't care what kind of miracles you expect from states and in the two political parties. it's over. this is a fiscal doomsday machine and it will hit the wall in the next few years and don't expect anything to stop it. that's my point of view. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] agree we have an unsustainable fiscal policy. i agree we have an unstable monetary policy. but i don't believe it's too late. let me if i can talk briefly about where we have been, wher
scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything...
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now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the [laughter] kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived in indonesia as a child, studied at a muslim seminary and occasionally ate dog. from the beginning, a kid who had his eyes set on the u.s. presidency. [laughter] check, check, and check. here i come. i know the relationship between the president and the press can seem a bit strained at times. some in this room have accused him of being distant and aloof. when i asked the president about it earlier, he said, oh, and then walked away. [laughter] it is only natural, but mr. president election was less exciting than the first time around in 2008. an election night, you celebrated with hundreds of tho
now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the [laughter] kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived...
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scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything they're talking about today like that change cpi. it is 2% of the real problem. they will have no ability to form a political consensus, i don't care what kind of miracles you expect from states and in the two political parties. it's over. this is a fiscal doomsday machine and it will hit the wall in the next few years and don't expect anything to stop it. that's my point of view. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> first, i agree we have an unsustainable fiscal policy. i agree we have an unstable monetary policy. but i don't believe it's too late. let me if i can talk briefly about where we ha
scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything...
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scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything they're talking about today like that change cpi. it is 2% of the real problem. they will have no ability to form a political consensus, i don't care what kind of miracles you expect from states and in the two political parties. it's over. this is a fiscal doomsday machine and it will hit the wall in the next few years and don't expect anything to stop it. that's my point of view. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> first, i agree we have an unsustainable fiscal policy. i agree we have an unstable monetary policy. but i don't believe it's too late. brieflyf i can talk about where we have been,
scenario taped to a forecast and i know something about rosy scenarios because i did the first one. if you do an honest view of the bumpy future we have in store for even just a cut and paste job on the last 10 years -- take the last 10 years and use it as your forecast going forward, you will get $15 trillion to $20 trillion and a total national debt of $30 trillion. you'll get 150% debt to gdp ratio and an utterly paralyzed congress. because when you are facing numbers that big, anything...
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despite president bush's rosy assessments, she wrote, iraq remains a disaster. if under saddam it was a 'potential' threat, under the americans it has been transformed to 'imminent and active threat. she called the war a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the united states for decades to come. as i said, she wrote this as a private update to a close circle of friends something she had been doing for several years, since the september 11 attacks. back i interviewed her to ask her how she remembers this. she saidclose friends and family wanted to know what was going on, she told me in a recent interview. keep in mind, this was 2004, when social media was in its infancy that is, this was shortly after mark zuckerberg dropped out of harvard university to create facebook -- can you still hear me? and years before twitter would become the powerful social network of billions of instantaneous thoughts. but something happened with this email, something fassihi did not anticipate. the digital platform acted as an accelerant, providing fuel to the spark of her unsparing
despite president bush's rosy assessments, she wrote, iraq remains a disaster. if under saddam it was a 'potential' threat, under the americans it has been transformed to 'imminent and active threat. she called the war a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the united states for decades to come. as i said, she wrote this as a private update to a close circle of friends something she had been doing for several years, since the september 11 attacks. back i interviewed her to ask her how she...
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now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the emmys. kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived in indonesia as a child, studied at a muslim seminary and occasionally a dog. -- ate dog. from the beginning, a kid who had his eyes set on the u.s. presidency. [laughter] check him a check, and check. here i come. i know the relationship between the president and the press can seem a bit strained at times. some in this room have accused him of being distant and aloof. when i asked the president about it earlier, he said, oh, and then walked away. [laughter] it is only natural, but mr. president election was less exciting than the first time around in 2008. an election night, you celebrated w
now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the emmys. kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the very nice stage where there are no more secrets left to come out about him. we all know that he lived in...